correctness

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This is an edited extract from Trigger Warnings: Political Correctness and the Rise of the Right by Jeff Sparrow, published by Scribe on 1 October.

From The Guardian • Sep. 30, 2018

Overall, many commentators on this issue seem simply weary of Political Correctness.

From Time • Oct. 29, 2013

I'll go ahead and predict that the New Era of Political Correctness will be shorter-lived than the "death of irony" we witnessed after 9/11.

From Slate • Jan. 10, 2011

Mottoes proclaim, the thoughts of pious Mr. Robinson in words like these: "Honesty and Truthfulness combined with Speed and Correctness are necessary to make good Business Men and Women."

From Time Magazine Archive

Correctness was their chief object, and they seemed to have little idea of the difference between poetical and prosaic expressions.

From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch